Two Thousand Women (1944)

Renee Houston: Maud Wright

Quotes 

• Maud Wright : [singing]  Too many women and not enough love to go around, Too many women and never a man to be found, Oh, isn't it a shame to wait, All my days and nights...

• Maud Wright : You mind if I sit down? The old varicose veins, you know. You think you're gonna like it here?

  Freda Thompson : I think we might.

  Maud Wright : Yeah, that's what they all say the first day. Here, have a fag.

• Teresa King : Tea - that's all they ever think about in this place.

  Maud Wright : Tea - and men.

  Margaret Long : I've almost forgotten what they look like.

  Bridie Johnson : They wear trousers. I remember that.

  Maud Wright : That's trouble number two in this place. If you can imagine a very large harem with the Sultan away for his annual holiday, well, that's us.

• Freda Thompson : Then it's up to us!

  Maud Wright : All we need is the act to finish the concert.

  Freda Thompson : It's got to be something sensational. If one of those officers leaves the hall before the show's finished, our plan won't work.

  Mrs. Hadfield : I - I don't know if its proper to suggest this, but supposing we could persuade Bridie to - to divest herself of her clothes, as I believe she did on the Paris stage.

  Mrs. Hope Latimer : Mrs. Hadfield!

  Nellie Skinner : Well, I don't know.

  Maud Wright : She's got it. Striptease! No man ever leaves before the last veil drops.

  Mrs. Hope Latimer : I refuse to be a party to it!

  Mrs. Hadfield : She'd be exposing herself for patriotic reasons, you know.

• Freda Thompson , Rosemary Brown , Maud Wright , Mrs. Tatmarsh , Margaret Long , Mrs. Hope Latimer , Nellie Skinner , Mrs. Burtshaw , Annette , Girl in the Show : [singing]  There'll always be an England, While there's a country lane, Wherever there's a cottage small, Beside a field of grain, There'll always be an England, And England shall be free, If England means as much to you, As England means to me.